Hey Jow Forums boiz I have this huge problem and I want your advice.
I've been wagecucking as a programer for 5 years, the pay is good, but there is a catch, I hate it, I hate every living second of it (well excluding the pay check), I hate being around all the beta male bugmen that are focused only on buying the newest and greatest tech, I hate creating some digital solution to some problem that nobody care except fr the manager, because we are going to save a lot of money implementing the new solution, I hate sitting in the office the whole day in front of the screen.
I just want to kill myself when I am working, and I am waking up with thoughts about how it would be better jus to kill myself then to go to work.
I dont have alot of money saved up, most of my pay was going in to crypto, and I am just passing time till it moons and I am set.
But biz boiz help me, how to survive? I am willing to live frugally, what side hustles should I take to be able to quit my daily work? I am currently learning knife making on my own, and I just love it but I am not good enough to sell my knives.
>side hussle >sick amount of cash Go back to R*ddit, normie
Robert Taylor
I make ~$300k passively (at this point) after building a tiny vending machine empire. The revenues are enough to keep 2 full time repair/maintenance techs employed. Pay service company to restick them. That's it. All the effort goes into talking to property owners to negotiate having vending machines on their property. After that you pretty much do nothing but collect $.
Noah Martin
wow thats a first, been lurking here for years, and saw a big influx of reddit shitheads, never thought of being called one.
I guess my IQ now is over 5000 for I am a reddit fgt.
Thats a fucking lot in my standarts, I would love to make 15k jewros a year after tax. I live in eastern yurop btw.
Ryan Price
>I am currently learning knife making on my own, and I just love it but I am not good enough to sell my knives. I´ll be the judge of that, show me knives
Cooper Wright
This is my latest creation.
It's more of a sharpened peace of steel that has been hardened then a proper knife I guess.
It took a long time to get here. But you can hit your goal pretty easily if you are willing to put in most of the work yourself. I'm not sure how popular vending machines are where you live, but Americans love them :)
Ryan Fisher
Nope, it's a relatively new thing here in eastern Europe and people are still sceptical about them.
I am not afraid of hard labor, I could say that I would event prefer it, I am thinking about learning blacksmithing and welding.
Samuel Nguyen
Yeah you could sell that online ''Artisanal Craftsmanship'' marks up the value Also you could make Kunais Otakus would eat it up
Go back to community college or a trade school to learn machining or something that fits your interests in knife making. Pull out some FAFSA loans while posting your programming job skills on SEOClerks or Fiverr. I've seen some pretty rough home made knives go for $100+ because they are "artisanal" or "hand crafted". Learn how to forge and you'll be set in terms of quality.
Jace Perez
well this sounds great, legit advice, how to mark up the value without putting years and years in perfecting this craft.
People here live much more frugally, a big part of my co-workers bring their own lunch, and prices for food in our vending machines that we have at work are bigger then in there nearest super market, so people if they need, go and buy stuff there and not at the machines, well they are still used, but they are not that popular.
Zachary Lopez
You can also get a cheap oxy-acetylene setup to harden steal if you quench in a solution of salt water and dish soap. You could also dunk it in used motor oil as well. Learn to make some hatchets or "pioneer gear" and market it as survivalism tools. Setup a shopify page as well. Learn knife laws of different states so you don't ship illegally
Tyler Flores
I know how to properly quench and temper the blade, edge geometry that is what is lacking the most.
I thought about setting up a online shop, being a web-dev that would be super easy.
Do you have any ideas how to promote to foreign european markets? I would guess that buying facebook, instagram ads and google adwords would be enough.
Maybe sending my knifes to some known bushcraft youtubers?
Christopher Wilson
do you hate programming or just hate working for others?
you've got all this experience, so making your own software products would likely be more profitable than making knives.
Landon Bailey
Go to techno parties, make connections with drug dealers and start slanging cocaine. Not even joking
Dylan Jones
in the same boat user (programmer, great salary, hate the actual job). used to love it but after 12 years i'm only here for the paycheck. no real solution except start another site that you can make money off somehow (and fail like i did). or continue working until you have enough saved up you can buy a cheap property to rent out for your first no hassle (lel) passive income.
I am coming to the conclusion that I hate both, I hate working for somebody, waking up and having my force fed wagecuck breakfast, and I hate programming, I just dont care about the project that I work on, I dont like reading news about programming.
I've tried freelancing, and hated it, most of you time you are dealing with idiot costumer who do not know what they want and they want it for cheap.
I want to create something physical that I can be proud of and show it to other, and other could use it in practical ways, well it may be overpriced tho.
I guess profit is secondary, beacause of the situation I'm in, if it was primary, I would ust happily wagecuck on and not think about killing myself, because the pay is super good.
I could do that i have the connections, but there has been a lot of police raids in rave/techno parties in our country, I current parlament is pushing more and more bans on drugs and bigger punishments for anything drug and even alcohol related.
Evan Gonzalez
I thought the same way, but the more time passes the more I feel like I am just wasting my time wagecucking it away. It feels like we are conditioned to fear risks involved to starting a business, and just to wagecuck on and on.
William Reed
Hey, how much capital did it take for you to get started? How much is a typical vending machine you buy, how many did you start with? I am seriously considering this.
Leo Evans
Also, what is your favorite model of vending machine to buy? I am considering stocking one with onion friendly products like s o ylent and odwalla and kombucha and putting it in san francisco where I work
Cameron Morris
Vending machine god please reply
Bentley Thomas
Bump anybody with vending experience please reply. Sounds doable
Asher Perry
So try hardware engineering, you capitalise in your software skills and simultaneously get to indulge your urge to create something physical. Right now I'm looking for a piece of hardware that I can operate remotely to do human like things 300km away like open up 40kg shutter windows when it gets too hot inside and stuff like that. I love software engineering though a d consider this hardware stuff not that interesting and would love to just be able to hand it off to someone that enjoys it, but very few people commercially seem to specialize in this field. It's all just hackaday and diy stuff all over the plac, not just "give me money and I'll make you bespoke hardware that down stuff"
Nicholas King
Hi, you are looking for a mechanical engineer/someone specializing in mechatronics. Dealing with physical forces at the magnitude you detailed requires knowledge of control systems. Hardware engineering in the classical sense is the design of FPGA's and ASICs, kind of stuff you are talking about just requires a tiny microcontroller and a bit of C code. Mechatronics folks have experience hooking up physical structures to microcontrollers and writing simple control schemes to make them do things
